Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
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'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYES
Professor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra begins to reassess his life, his career and his relationship with his three children.
He’s just missed out on the Nobel Prize (again). All this work. All this stress. It's killing him.
Professor Chandra needs to take a break, and reluctantly agrees to visit a Californian retreat, to follow his bliss.
And so he must try to crack the most complex problem of all: the secret to his own happiness
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his follow-up to In Beautiful Disguises, Balasubramanyam demonstrates with insight and a dash of humor that it's possible to turn one's life around after everything goes wrong. Perfectionist Cambridge economics professor Chandra is a supposed shoe-in for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics, but someone else gets the award, and shortly thereafter the professor is hit in a bicycle hit-and-run and has a heart attack. Divorced for three years, he misses his ex-wife who's now remarried to a Colorado psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Chandra's oldest son, Sunny, is in Hong Kong, having rejected his father's economic theories and set up a successful Institute for Mindful Business; his radical, socialist daughter Radha refuses to communicate with him and forbids the family to tell him where she is living; and youngest daughter Jasmine, academically adrift, gets involved with drugs. Things change when part dare, part bribe Steve, the husband of Chandra's ex, arranges for the professor to take a three-day self-awareness course at the Esalen Institute retreat center. Despite resistance to such a place, Chandra is genuinely transformed though perhaps a bit too easily. Balasubramanyam makes a winning case for how meditation, restraint, self-reflection and owning one's character flaws can bring joy and satisfaction to life.
